Some people are born with limbs missing, or with one that doesn’t develop properly. More often, they’ve been in an accident, or had a leg amputated after complications from diabetes or vascular disease.If you lose a limb, you’ll almost certainly end up at one of the five branches of the New Zealand Artificial Limb Service, where expert prosthetists will create a new, bespoke one just for you.

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What happens when you lose a limb?

Some people are born with limbs missing, or with one that doesn’t develop properly. More often, they’ve been in an accident, or had a leg amputated after complications from diabetes or vascular disease.

If you lose a limb, you’ll almost certainly end up at one of the five branches of the New Zealand Artificial Limb Service, where expert prosthetists will create a new, bespoke one just for you.

Eyes on the prize

In the winter of 1862, a new and brutal type of sporting contest, held on public land and in brazen defiance of the authorities, became the talk of Christchurch.

Fossilised fish flock together

Fish have been forming shoals since at least the Eocene Epoch, according to this fossil of 259 tiny fish.

Flight tests

It's not a squirrel, or a bat, but a dinosaur that acted like all three. This newly discovered species lived in the forests of China 163 million years ago.

Explore White Island from your armchair

Whakaari is New Zealand's most active volcano, being in a state of continuous volcanic activity for some 150,000 years.

It is frilled with a skirt of pohutukawa forest and at its centre is a boiling, sulphuric crater lake with an ever-attendant volcanic plume, which is acidic. In the cool evenings, the plume is large enough to form rain. Yes, the rain is acid too.

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Photographer of the Year 2019 now open for entries

Ladies and gentlemen, warm up your motordrive, charge your intervalometer, entries for the 2019 New Zealand Geographic Photographer of the Year are now open!


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